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Kudos for Staged Reading of “8”

September 21, 2012

Among the highlights of the four-day Ursinus Fringe Festival was a staged reading of “8,” the new play by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk, J. Edgar), which uses material from California’s Proposition 8 case. The reading was directed by Professor of Theater Domenick Scudera.

Professor Scudera said that the staged reading was “effective and memorable,” and it showed support for the Ursinus LGBT community. Students, he noted, said they were grateful the play was done on campus, and called it inspiring and powerful.

Ursinus was proud to be one of many colleges and theater groups around the country to have staged a reading of the play which tells the true story of two loving couples who want to get married but can’t. Together with attorneys David Boies and Ted Olson and a host of expert witnesses, they take aim at Proposition 8, a discriminatory law that took away the right for LGBT couples to marry in California in 2008.